Thank you to Kim Traynor for allowing me to
reproduce this photograph taken inside
the Royal Victoria Hospital.

Kim wrote:

"This photowas left to
me bymy
Aunt who died a few years ago.Her father,who suffered from poison gas
in the Great War, was ill throughout the 1920s and was treated at the
hospital.

This
photo looks to meas if it
might havebeen taken in the mid-1920s.
I think the people in it are probably'TB sufferers'."

Kim Traynor,
Tollcross, Edinburgh: September 1+18, 2009

Kim added:

"Having read more about the Royal Victoria on
the web, it seems clear from the shape of the ward that it was one of the
three specially designed, so-called ‘butterfly wards’ (from their
building shape) in the grounds of the Hospital. They were demolished in
1981.